POD Data Centre at Denver Federal Center

FALLS CHURCH, US: HITT Contracting Inc. (HITT) has been awarded a contract for the design and construction of a new Tier III Data Center to be located at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, Colorado. The team, led by HITT, includes Wisnewski Blair & Associates for Architecture; KTA Group for Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Engineering; Woods Peacock for Structural Engineering; Kimley-Horn and Associates for Civil Engineering; and Schmid & Associates for Fire Protection Engineering.

The facility comprises roughly 110,000 s.f. on an 11-acre site, consisting of two stories with a mechanical basement. Designed to meet Tier III requirements, as rated by the Uptime Institute Tier Level Classification System, the building will contain redundancy for failure and maintenance and will employ the Performance Optimized Datacenter (POD) concept.

Design will begin in March 2010 with construction scheduled to be completed by October 2011. This project is funded by the FY2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and is recognized under the prestigious GSA Design and Construction Excellence Program.